This is one from Varèse Sarabande’s LP to CD series.
While I could still vividly recall images and sequences from Bad Dreams, the only music from the film that I remembered was the use of Guns N' Roses' song Sweet Child O' Mine for the end credits. Other than that, nothing.
Well, turns out there was a very good reason for that. Jay Ferguson's electronic score for the film eschews traditional thematic or melodic structure. Listening to it brought to mind one music writer's dismissal of most 80s electronic scores as being "one long drone."
Which pretty much describes this score. It is 30 to 40 minutes of dark tones and drones that, no matter how often I revisit it, remains unmemorable.
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